lamphoera:

the “lets compare fanfic to lit vs dont compare fanfiction to lit bc its not” discourse on this website is the dumbest shit i’ve ever seen. who cares. who cares. truly i have never before logged on and seen people so mad in a stupid way about a more inconsequential topic. it seems like a lot of people focus on uselessly litigating what it’s acceptable to “value” the subjects in question which misses what i feel like is a lot of interesting meat that would actually contribute something to or ask something meaningful about how we conceptualize our understanding of stories

i would say that my issue with how people talk about this is that i’ve seen some some great points/perspectives but they are often undermined and limited by the need defend an assertion of value, whatever that may be, rather than really like… exploring stories as serving different experiences and needs through a lens where things don’t need to go back to considering value, which opens up a lot of possibilities i think, esp concerning what it says about the people involved. i’m less asking for people to actually go about life that way and more to consider it as a lens to think about things through